<p>I have just been admitted into Michigan's LSA, and I plan on attending next fall.</p>
<p>I don't want to dorm on north campus though and have a few housing questions.</p>
<p>How does the Michigan Housing Lottery work? - If you pay the enrollment deposit earlier do you get a better lottery number? If not, are the numbers completely random? When do you get your lottery number? </p>
<p>I'm interested in applying to Honors and Community Scholars Program. I know that they will be on West Quad and East Quad next year respectively.
-Is East quad that bad? Are the Requirements for CSP annoying?</p>
<p>If you are admitted to one of these programs are you bound to participate?
-When is the deadline to apply to these?</p>
<p>Any strategies to avoid North?</p>
<p>West Quad is really great, and East Quad used to be not-so-great but they just did some extensive interior and infrastructural renovations so it could be quite nice now. Both are in awesome locations.</p>
<p>If you are in a learning community (MRC is in Mojo, RC is in East Quad, Honors is in West/East Quad next year), or if you are female and choose to live in an all-girls dorm (Martha Cook, Betsy Barbour), then you are guaranteed housing in these respective locations. If you are not involved in any of these, then I believe housing assignments are on a loose first come first serve basis. I say loose because in administering housing to 6,000 students, not everyone can get what they want, even if they apply early.</p>
<p>And to answer your question about the admittance to programs, no, admittance is not a binding contract. You can get accepted to the Honors Program before even enrolling at UMich. The programs work similarly to college acceptances-- you don’t have to participate if you get accepted.</p>
<p>The only strategy I know of to avoid North Campus is to apply to a learning community. I recommend MRC. I’m in Honors and I’m glad I am, South Quad is pretty great, but my friends in MRC get very nice housing in Mojo, good research opportunities for credits, and they don’t have to take Great Books. :)</p>
<p>I’ve said it several times on this board, and I’ll continue to say it…</p>
<p>[Michigan</a> Research Community](<a href=“http://www.lsa.umich.edu/mrc]Michigan”>http://www.lsa.umich.edu/mrc)</p>
<p>Google is your friend.</p>
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<p>You pay the enrollment deposit and that allows you to apply for housing. If you apply for housing by the deadline (I think it is the first week of May), then they put you in a lottery for assignment to housing through a process that nobody seems to know how it works. Sometime over the summer (the dates vary with no logic) they tell you what dorm you are in. I’m sure the process is not completely random but for practical purposes it is.</p>
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<p>East Quad is being gutted this year so by September it will be fully renovated. Most of the dorms that have been recently renovated are described as hotels. One of the biggests problems with East Quad is that it had no AC and it got really hot when it was warm outside. The renovated dorm will have AC. Both East Quad and West Quad are in good locations. West Quad has not been renovated and it has no elevators.</p>
<p>From what I have been told is that the CSP requirements are worth the assurance of being on Central Campus. They are not difficult but if they weren’t required you probably wouldn’t want to take them. I understand that there is an evening class that is annoying because it conflicts with social things.</p>
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<p>Other than honors, the deadline to apply is in the spring. I think it is about the same time as the housing application deadline. You find out if you get in sometime in early June before orientation starts. I don’t know enough about what happens if you want to drop out. I don’t think they kick you out of honors housing if you drop honors.</p>
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<p>Other than the learning communities, I don’t know many effective strategies. I have heard that applying with a roommate makes it more likely you will be in North but I know people who have done that and have been put in Markley. If you are Jewish you can have your rabbi send a letter and they will put you in Oxford but I think that could be worse than Bursley.</p>